Sttjmp-bxtractoe



l srUMP-EXTRACTOR.

Specicaton of Letters PatentlNo. 26,498, dated December 2051318519,`

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN HosMER, of

i Bedford in the county of Middlesex and Seite of Improved Stump-Extractor; and I `do hereby declare that the sameis fully described and represented in the following specification and `the accompanying drawings, of which* Figure l, denotes a top view; Fig." 2, a

` side elevation of it, and Fig. 3, a front view pf the devices for supporting the working ever.

The nature of my invention consists of an improved lever, and hook stump extractor as constructed with a combination of a holding tongue and supporter and with such united by a universal joint in manner and so as to operate or enable the ate as hereinafter specified.

In the drawings, A` denotes the `leverl which is supported by an upright shaft, B, carrying two projections or arms, a, b, which extend in opposite directions from it. These arms are connected respectively by chains or jointed rods, to two hooks, C, D, which when the lever is turned horizontally, first inone direction and next in the` other, are to be alternately hooked into a chain, E,` carried over the top of shears, F, and so as todepend therefrom as shown in Fig. 2. The lower end of the chain is furnished with a hook, C, to enable the chain to be connected with a stump preparatory to its extraction fromthe ground. 1

The fulcrum shaft, B, ofthe `lever is sup-` ported by means of a carrier or frame, G, fixed on the top of a long holding tongue, H,

which projects backward fromthe lever, and has at its rear end, an eye, d, orother` suitable appliance, by which or by a chain or rope, the tongue may be applied to or connected with a stump, tree, or a post projecting from the ground. 1

The tongue, H, near its front en'd rests on a rocker shaft, I, and is connected thereto` Massachusetts have invented an` turn laterally and thuslthe shaftand :tran

parts to operby a transom bolt, c, so as to be capable*of.` l s f1 being turned in a horizontal ,direction o the 31 rocker shaft. i. w l" 1f j A supporter or stand,;K,.composedo n bed timber, f, two postsg` g,a connecting piece it, and struts, z',f(arranged asfshovsfn" in Fig. 3,) serves tolgive support/to thejour nals of the` rocker shaft,whichjisdisposed:` between theposts of the supporter as shown 1 in the drawings. The` shaft` can revolve o som bolt constitute a universal `joint,byl which the supportenfK, canbe tipped1` and turned so as to adapt the supporter tofad vantage to uneven` or slopingf groundf" that by means of the `tong`ue and su` `orter i so connected, the supporterymay bea justed out of the way of rocks or,`s`tumps, andmade y to rest on ground havingany ordinary clnation. Thisin operating` the machine or preparing it forwbeingwput in `operation a matter of great convenience` By means ofthe tongueandits supporter,` j, the fulcrum of the lever can be moved abolmit` in a circle whilefthezrear `end of the tongue is applied to astump orpost, andthus the extractor` canfbe easily movedflfromfi one stump to another within1the circle of movement the instrument,readily` adjusting" itself to theqground onwhichit mayflbe placed. i V

I do not claim the leverfanditstwo hooks to operate on achainledjovershears; norvdol` I claim supportingsuchglever `by achai `8` looped around a stump `orfobject,,but` 9` What Ido claimis* l: 1 j,

The improved `leverand *hook stump, ex tractor, as constructed with the combination of the holdingtongue, H, and ,its supporter,`

` K, and with each united by` a universal j int,1

in manner and sofas to enable thelparts tol `operate substantially as specified.` H l EDwINynosMnir.

Witnesses: f j

T. B. HosMER," y a 

